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“248 Meanwhile, the Solymites [or dwellers in Jerusalem] made a descent along with the polluted Egyptians, and treated the people so impiously and savagely that the domination of the Shepherds seemed like a golden age to those who witnessed the present enormities. 249 For not only did they set towns and villages on fire, pillaging the temples and mutilating images of the gods without restraint, but they also made a practice of using the sanctuaries as kitchens to roast the sacred animals which the people worshipped: and they would compel the priests and prophets to sacrifice and butcher the beasts, afterwards casting the men forth naked. 250 It is said that the priest who framed their constitution and their laws was a native of Hêliopolis, named Osarsêph after the god Osiris, worshipped at Hêliopolis; but when he joined this people, he changed his name and was called Moses.”
― Complete Works of Manetho
― Complete Works of Manetho
“The year I take, however, to be a lunar one, consisting, that is, of 30 days: what we now call a month the Egyptians used formerly to style a year.”
― Complete Works of Manetho
― Complete Works of Manetho
“The Seventeenth Dynasty consisted of Shepherds, who were brothers from Phoenicia and foreign kings: they seized Memphis. The first of these kings, Saïtês, reigned for 19 years: from him, too, the Saïte nome derived its name. These kings founded in the Sethroïte nome a town from which they made a raid and subdued Egypt. The second king was Bnon, for 40 years. Next, Archlês, for 30 years. Aphophis, for 14 years. Total, 103 years. It was in their time that Joseph appears to have ruled in Egypt.”
― Complete Works of Manetho
― Complete Works of Manetho
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